Trump administration approves tougher visa vetting, including social media check
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Re: Trump administration approves tougher visa vetting, including social media check
#2Submitting a complete record of 15 years of travel history would be quite challenging to many people, to say the least.
Re: Trump administration approves tougher visa vetting, including social media check
#3What does social media include? Will I have to list my HN and reddit usernames? What about throwaways, am I expected to list those too?
Re: Trump administration approves tougher visa vetting, including social media check
#4If I didn't live here already I don't think I would ever travel to the US unless I absolutely couldn't avoid it. I am already really nervous that I have to give them my laptop or phone with passwords so they can poke around my E-mails.
Re: Trump administration approves tougher visa vetting, including social media check
#5What does social media include? Will I have to list my HN and reddit usernames? What about throwaways, am I expected to list those too?
Yes
Re: Trump administration approves tougher visa vetting, including social media check
#6Hi there Mr. Consular Officer deciding my visa application in 2021:
If your president is still Donald Trump: "Your president is a shallow idiot, a spineless cretin, a psychopathic narcissist, a sorry excuse for an inferiority complex, a caricature of what a 10-year-old would consider "manliness"–in short: a human bogey. His election reflects rather poorly on your country, and I hope it serves as a catalyst for positive change. Even though I think your leader is terribly dangerous, I only wish to visit the US to see a friend or attend a conference, won't make any trouble legal or otherwise, and leave on the date indicated on my visa application. If you still wish to deny me, please do so and ease the burden of making this decision myself"
(if not: "Good Job! Now click "approve" and move along. You're really handsome today!")
Re: Trump administration approves tougher visa vetting, including social media check
#7Submitting a complete record of 15 years of travel history would be quite challenging to many people, to say the least.
I applied for an Indian visa a couple months ago. The page gave me 100 characters to list countries I'd visited in the previous few years. If I used 2 letter abbreviations and skipped the commas I could have just about done it. As it stands I started at NZ and moved west. Ran out of space just before listing Pakistan. Oh well.
Re: Trump administration approves tougher visa vetting, including social media check
#8what if you just don't use social media?
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#10Absolutely unbelievable. It is just unconscionable to require handing over this sort of information. How do we stop this madness?
Watch while China reciprocates and see how much US business travelers like that.